Tornado, Cheyenne
- When
- June 3, 4:25 PM MST to 4:27 PM MST
- Where
- Cheyenne County, 3 mi W of Lorenzo
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 41.050, -103.100
Brief touchdown in field.
Tornado in Nebraska, June 3, 2004
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Cheyenne, WY wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 3, 2:05 PM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 3, 2:05 PM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 305 PM MDT THU JUN 3 2004 .SHORT TERM...SURFACE TROUGH CONTINUES TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE ERN PLAINS WITH BRISK SOUTH WINDS ADVECTING UPPER 40S-LOWER 50S DEWPOINTS NWRD EAST OF THE TROUGH. WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES CONTINUE TO HAMPER/INHIBIT TSTM DEVELOPMENT. EXPECT SCT TSTMS TO DEVELOP ALONG THE CAP WEAKNESS AND LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE AXIS AND MOVE EWRD ACROSS THE SRN LARAMIE MTNS AND NEARBY PLAINS LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ELSEWHERE...ONLY ISOLD TSTMS EXPECTED. A FEW STORMS MAY PRODUCE HAIL AND/OR STRONG WINDS THRU MID EVENING DUE TO ADEQUATE WIND SHEAR/BUOYANT ENERGY ACROSS FAR SERN WY/WRN NEB PNHDL. TSTMS SHOULD END BY MIDNIGHT. FOR FRI...LOW/MID LEVEL FLOW BECOMES MORE WLY WHICH IN TURN DRIES OUT THE ATMOSPHERE CONSIDERABLY WITH LOW LEVELS MIXING OUT IN THE AFTERNOON. TEND TO BELIEVE ETA SOLUTION OVER GFS WHICH SHOWS SFC TROUGH MOVING INTO WRN NEB BY LATE AFTERNOON. WITH 850/700 MB THETA-E RIDGE AXIS POSITIONS AND WARM MID LEVEL TEMPERATURES...TSTM COVERAGE WILL BE SEVERELY LIMITED IN THE AFTERNOON. WILL GO WITH HIGHEST POPS ACROSS WRN NEB WITH LESSER POPS ACROSS ERN WY. WARMER ETA MOS HIGHS LOOK BEST BASED ON 850/700 MB TEMPERATURES. -RUBIN .LONG TERM...WILL KEEP A LOW POP EARLY FRI EVENING TO COVER ANY LINGERING TSTMS FROM FRI AFTERNOON AND TO BLEND WITH SURROUNDING WFO GRIDS. WILL ALSO BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS EARLY SAT MORNING INTO EAST CENTRAL WY AS COLD FRONT APPROACHES. FRONT WILL BRING COOLER TEMPS SAT. AFTER SOME EARLY MORNING SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN FORECAST AREA...THERE WILL ONLY BE A SLIGHT CHANCE OF TSTMS IN THE AFTERNOON MAINLY OVER SOUTHERN PARTS OF FORECAST AREA. FRONT RETREATS AS A WARM FRONT SUNDAY AFTERNOON WITH DRIER/WARMER AIR SWEEPING IN BEHIND IT. ENOUGH LINGERING MOISTURE OVER NEBRASKA PANHANDLE TO KEEP A LOW POP THERE SUNDAY EVENING. DRY AND WARM WX FOR MON THEN NEXT COLD FRONT MOVES DOWN FROM THE NORTH ON TUESDAY. WILL INCLUDE A LOW POP MAINLY NORTHERN FORECAST AREA TUE NIGHT... THEN SPREAD 20 TO 30 PERCENT POPS OVER EASTERN PART OF FORECAST AREA FOR WED AND THU IN SLIGHTLY COOLER UPSLOPE AIR BEHIND FRONT. -JLH .CYS WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WY...NONE. NE...NONE.
Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 3, 10:02 AM MST, 6 hours 23 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHEYENNE WY 1102 AM MDT THU JUN 3 2004 NEZ001>003-019>021-054-055-WYZ059>070-041130- BANNER-BOX BUTTE-CHEYENNE-CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS-CONVERSE-DAWES-GOSHEN- KIMBALL-LARAMIE RANGE-LARAMIE VALLEY-MORRILL-NIOBRARA-NORTH CARBON- NORTH LARAMIE RANGE-PINE BLUFFS-PLATTE-SCOTTS BLUFF-SIOUX- SNOWY RANGE-SOUTHWEST CARBON- INCLUDING THE CITIES OF...ALLIANCE...CHADRON...CHEYENNE...DOUGLAS... KIMBALL...LARAMIE...LUSK...RAWLINS...SCOTTSBLUFF...SIDNEY... TORRINGTON AND WHEATLAND 1102 AM MDT THU JUN 3 2004 .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST WYOMING...INCLUDING NIOBRARA...PLATTE...GOSHEN AND LARAMIE COUNTIES...AND ACROSS ALL OF THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE. MOIST LOW LEVEL SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL STRENGTHEN ACROSS THE PLAINS THIS AFTERNOON...SETTING UP A LOW LEVEL CONVERGENCE BOUNDARY ACROSS THE EASTERN SLOPES OF THE MOUNTAINS. SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON NEAR THE LARAMIE RANGE AND CHEYENNE FOOTHILLS...WHILE ISOLATED THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP ELSEWHERE EAST OF A LINE FROM DOUGLAS TO LARAMIE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE INTO THE EVENING HOURS BEFORE DISSIPATING. BECAUSE OF ADEQUATE WIND SHEAR AND BUOYANT ENERGY...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS MAY BECOME SEVERE...WITH THE PRIMARY THREATS BEING THREE QUARTER INCH DIAMETER HAIL OR LARGER...OR WIND GUSTS IN EXCESS OF 60 MPH. THUNDERSTORM MOVEMENT WILL BE EAST AT 25 MPH. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A CHANCE OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS IS EXPECTED AGAIN ACROSS THE REGION FRIDAY. A FEW STORMS COULD BECOME SEVERE OVER THE WESTERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE ON FRIDAY. ISOLATED STORMS ARE POSSIBLE SATURDAY...BUT WITH LESS MOISTURE AND INSTABILITY AVAILABLE...THE STORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED TO BECOME SEVERE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE NEEDED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING...OVER THE SOUTHERN NEBRASKA PANHANDLE AND FAR SOUTHEAST WYOMING. RUBIN
The radar
The Cheyenne radar (KCYS), 143 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:23 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New Mexico, June 3, 2004
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 3, 2004
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 3, 2004
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 3, 2004
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Florida, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Colorado, June 3, 2004
- Hail in South Dakota, June 3, 2004
- Hail in Nebraska, June 3, 2004
- Flooding in Iowa, June 3, 2004
More
Every storm in Nebraska in 2004Every state in 2004This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Nebraska, 2004Warnings in Nebraska, June 2004
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5408369.